Macron\u2019s fourth premier this year faces the same budgetary headache as Michel Barnier \u2013 but the parliamentary equation has changed<\/p>\n
The latest attempt to resolve France\u2019s political and financial crisis might be dubbed \u201cback to the future\u201d.<\/p>\n
The new prime minister, Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou<\/a>, was minister of education when Emmanuel Macron was still a schoolboy. The 73-year-old centrist, whom the president reluctantly appointed<\/a> on Friday after days of closed-door wrangling after the fall of Michel Barnier\u2019s short-lived government, was a vital ally and consigliere to the young Macron when he dynamited France\u2019s political system in 2017 to win the presidency at the tender age of 39.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Macron\u2019s fourth premier this year faces the same budgetary headache as Michel Barnier \u2013 but the parliamentary equation has changed The latest attempt to resolve France\u2019s political and financial crisis might be dubbed \u201cback to the future\u201d. The new prime minister, Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou, was minister of education when Emmanuel Macron was still a schoolboy. The … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}